Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE), the famous philosopher and mentor of Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 BCE), acknowledged that open and accessible societies could face...
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
In this narrated video essay, we present the absolute cheesiest tale about Charlemagne (r. 768-814) that was recorded by the medieval monk and historian,...
Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755/1757-1804)
"Men, upon too many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but, yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle...
This blue painting, by the American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), re-creates a storied scene from the early life of Moses, the famous Hebrew...
This impressive set of medieval 15th-century armor was largely pieced together from the remnants of unconnected items of Italian equipment discovered at a Venetian...
(Late medieval or Renaissance illustration of a plague doctor, via Creative Commons)
Doctor Charles de l’Orme (1584-1678) is credited with the iconic plague doctor’s...
